Sentences with phrase «jobs than coal»

Energy efficiency measures deliver positive environmental impacts, reduce your reliance on utility - generated electricity, and provide more jobs than the coal or upstream oil & gas sectors in the United States.

Wind energy creates 30 % more jobs than a coal plant and 66 % more than a nuclear power plant per unit of energy generated.

Solar energy delivers positive environmental impacts, contributes to our nation's energy independence, and provides more jobs than the coal or upstream oil & gas sectors in the United States.

Not exact matches

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

Solar jobs do pay better than «average,» but not better than coal jobs.

«On rooftops from Arizona to New York, solar is saving Americans tens of millions of dollars a year on their energy bills, and employs more Americans than coal — in jobs that pay better than average.»

Solar power currently employs more than twice as many people as the coal industry, and entry - level jobs pay a much higher wage than average.

As of November 2015, the solar industry employed 208,859 solar workers, which is already larger than the roughly 150,000 jobs remaining in the domestic coal industry.

More than 4,800 coal miners in West Virginia and Kentucky lost their jobs, according to EIA.

Solar power might be an undeniable part of our future — the industry created double the amount of jobs as coal did last year and accounts for nearly 40 % of new electric capacity added to the grid, more than wind or even natural gas — but SolarCity itself isn't.

Solar created one out of every 50 new jobs in the U.S. last year, and the sector now employs more Americans than coal.

Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club commented: «Mike Bloomberg's partnership with the Sierra Club and our more than 3 million members and supporters has put our country on a path to cleaner air and cleaner water, good - paying clean energy jobs, and healthier communities that are safe from toxic coal pollution».

Hope theRump is held accountable for all the coal jobs he created... what better way to keep folks down than send them underground to feed more soot into the air we breathe... while telling them they are just lucky to have any job.

Drilling for natural gas has been promoted because it burns more cleanly than coal and can reduce dependence on imported energy sources, and it can also bring jobs to economically battered regions of the state.

There are fewer coal jobs today than there were last year, and there will be fewer still next year.

In this way we could be selling billions of dollars worth of value added manufactured renewable products to Asia creating thousands of meaningful Australian jobs rather than selling low value primary products like coal and woodchips.

Maybe put some of it into citizens pockets directly, spend some on job creating industries rather than on old industries that are cutting staff (coal mining for example), maybe a dozen other things that looked impossible before you decided to change your spending patterns.

I'd quibble with you about lost coal jobs; that isn't so much due to the rise of renewables as to the regulation of coal in general; and I suspect that in fact, more coal jobs have been lost to natural gas than to renewables.

While only five jobs were added by coal firms since 2016, more than 100 contract employees are back in the mining business.

Between 2007 and 2016, coal production and consumption both fell by more than a third, and mining jobs fell from 125,000 to 75,000.

Both ACF and ACTU have confirmed that there are more jobs in renewable energy and in fighting pollution than there are in coal.

The industry has shed jobs as coal power has declined as a share of U.S. electricity generation: from more than 50 percent in 2000 to 37 percent in 2010.

Today, amid an anemic economy and joblessness far worse than official government figures admit, President Obama balks at approving the Keystone XL pipeline, cancels leasing and drilling on federal lands, tells our budget - sequestered military to buy $ 26 to $ 67 - per - gallon ship and jet fuel, punishes refineries for not buying cellulosic ethanol that doesn't exist, and happily lets EPA shut down coal - fired power plants and kill countless thousands of mining, utility and other jobs.

Better yet would be to debate an energy policy for the USA, including opening up exploratory oil and gas drilling including shale deposits, limiting the exponential growth of regulations currently stifling new exploration, ending the EPA regulatory war on coal, reactivating the Keystone pipeline, etc.; these issues have direct impact on American jobs and future energy independence, both of which are more important issues for US voters (and presidential candidates) than any «climate» debate.

If coal created more jobs than the alternatives, coal would cost more than the alternatives.

Moreover, many future coal jobs will likely be automated, rather than employ people in coal country, Robert Godby, an energy economist at the University of Wyoming, told The New York Times.

Last year, many more jobs were created in wind energy than in coal.

Far easier to get some progress on cleaning up residential biomass, residential coal, «back yard» coal industries in China, India and elsewhere, than to stop China and India from building more coal fired power plants when they need more power to provide jobs, industry, and taxes.

It's the reckless mismanagement of the coal industry by CEOs, many of whom are more interested in skirting regulations and scoring political points than in maintaining jobs, modernizing their technology, or keeping their mines safe.

2017 saw more money spent on solar capacity than oil, coal, gas and nuclear combined, and in the United States, its projected that the solar industry will return to job growth after a 2017 tightening.

But if Donald Trump really wants to create jobs, then he's going to be pro-solar, because there are a lot more jobs installing solar panels on people's roofs than there are in digging up coal or burning it.

In the states for 14 of the 15 districts covered in «Polluting Democracy» there are more jobs in wind and solar than in coal - fired power.

Jobs lost in the coal and petroleum industries would be more than compensated for by growth in the renewable sectors, and in the end, there would be more than 24 million new jobs worldwide.

An economic transformation is taking place, with more Europeans now employed in well - paying and secure jobs in the renewables sector than are employed in the coal industry;

Even in the United States, different interests help shape different attitudes: Poorer Americans in states more dependent upon cheap coal electricity are far less likely to support policies that would cost jobs or significantly increase energy prices than are wealthier Americans on the coasts, whose energy supply is already much cleaner.

With a job description that entails commenting on news items day in and day out, it's waaaay easier to isolate certain groups and refer to them in perpetuity as «bad guys» than to deploy sincere empathy on a daily basis: 50 % of my blogging oeuvre bemoans entities like Big Oil, the 2010 congressional GOP, climate change deniers, or the coal lobby.

A recent University of Massachusetts study found investing in clean energy projects like wind power and mass transit creates three to four times more jobs than the same expenditure on the coal industry.

If they work on a site like sea - shore, coal - mines, chemical plants, they are considered more likely to meet an accident or injury rather than those who have a fixed 8 - hours job at an office.

While re-entering the job market may feel more intimidating than staring down the Grinch, try some of these tips designed to fill your career stocking with interview requests instead of coal.